> On Sep 23, 2015, at 10:20 AM, John Wiegley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>>>>> Michael Toomim <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> Sure, I gave examples at the beginning of this thread. I want to get a
>> transaction out, but the csv and register commands will only give me
>> postings.
> 
>> Here's a transaction:
> 
>> 2014-1-1 sold bitcoin
>> Assets:bitcoin 4 btc @ $250
>> Assets:cash -$1,000
> 
>> CSV export will currently give you:
> 
>> "2014/01/01","","sold bitcoin","Assets:bitcoin","btc","4","",""
>> "2014/01/01","","sold bitcoin","Assets:cash","$","-1000","",""
> 
> So, you can do this:
> 
>    ledger --prepend-format '"%(xact.id)",' csv
> 
> And now you'll be able to determine related postings by grouping according to
> those with the same transaction id.  This should be trivial in whatever
> scripting language you prefer.

Thank you John!  This feature is xact-ly what I need!  I'm saved!

We should get xact.id into the documentation, so that other users can learn 
that it exists.

> At the beginning of this thread I gave details on everything I tried to get
>> this information out of Ledger.
> 
> Sorry, I'm a bit swamped at the moment to address this problem in the detail
> it deserves.  Hopefully we can get you on the right place without too much
> difficulty.

I'm on the right path now, thank you.  And I'm sorry that my original report 
was hard to understand, I was swamped at that moment too.  I'll be able to work 
on this with a clearer mind soon.

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